On 3/29/2017 3:04 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:52 PM, <sky5w...@gmail.com
<mailto:sky5w...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Yes, change your text files to UTF-8 with BOM(unsure without BOM)
and Fossil respects °, ±, ©, ®, special characters.
Actually, UTF8 does not typically use a BOM because byte order is
meaningless with UTF8 (the standard allows a BOM but does not require it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
I took my u.tcl file, removed the 'bom' and now both tclsh and wish work.
If I edit the file, of course the utf-8 copyright symbol is garbled.
Furthermore, there is no way I can insert a utf-8 character.
Those other symbols that, it seems to me, are in common use such at the
trademark and registered characters still seem to work when they appear
in a plain text file.
F.I., look at
https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/peggle/peggle/standard-edition
You can copy and paste the "Peggle®" and paste it into notepad. When you
save the file, you will see that the "registered" character is a single
character with the hex value \xAE.
I realize that the original html probably used the html &xxx; for that
mark, but in a .txt file it is \xAE and it shows as the correct
character when I look at it or edit it -- but fossil will display those
characters as the black '?'?
I also understand that a program script or, say, C source file can use
the utf-8 escape sequence to generate these characters when the program
is run. That is not possible in comments tho.
It sounds like I just have to live with the "way it works". At least I
now have a better understanding of the issues.
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